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INA TIORAS 
[ Maxcil 21, 1907 
more appropriate title for 
than ‘central station.’ 
tainly an improvement on “‘ reinforced concrete,’ 
it is a clumsy name for a material which does such 
important work in civil engineering. A similar case 
which existed until lately was the need of a substitute 
” 
its particular vital organ 
‘ Ferro-concrete ’’ is cer- 
> but 
cc 
for “aérial navigation,’? but this has been most 
happily met by the suggested 
“ aviation,’’ a word which is both 
short in spelling and wieldy in pro- 
nunciation. 
It is to be hoped that those who 
have {0 coin new ‘engineering 
terms in future will follow the ex- 
ample of the old Dutch chemist 
and depart as little as possible 
from three-letter monosyllables. 
The times are growing too busy 
for more of the three- and four- 
syllabled obstructions of physicists 
and electricians to be tolerated. 
A. H. Downes-Suaw. 
SPORT IN “CEYLON. 
IFTEEN years’ experience of 
the jungle, even though it be 
limited to one or two annual hunt- 
ing trips, ought to suffice to make 
any keen sportsman (like the 
author of the volume before us) 
thoroughiy familiar with the habits 
of ail the larger forms of wild 
animal life to be met with in 
a circumscribed area somewhat 
smaller than that of Ireland. Mr. 
Storey has, however, not been con- 
tent with his own great practical 
knowledge of the denizens of 
the Ceylon jungle and their ways, but has enlisted 
the aid of a number of his fellow-sportsmen. With 
such an array of specialists, the book may be re- 
Fic. 1.—Head of Ceylon Buffalo. 
in Ceylon.” 
From Storey’s ‘* Hunting and Shooting 
garded as a thoroughly up-to-date account of the 
sport to be met with at the present day in one of 
the most lovely of the islands of the East. 
4 “Hunting and Shooting in Ceylon.” 
Pp. xxtli+365; illustrated. (London: 
Pri-e rss. net. 
NO. 1951, VOL. 75] 
By H. Storey (and others). 
Longmans, Green and Co., 1607. 
Fic. 2.—Chital or Spotted Deer ; the buck with the antlers in velvet. 
Unfortunately, this sport is nothing like what it 
was when Sir Samuel Baker shot and hunted in the 
island some sixty years ago, and if matters are per- 
mitted to go on as they are, it is the author’s opinion 
that several of the game animals will be in danger 
of extermination, or at all events will be so reduced 
in numbers that Ceylon will cease to be a hunting- 
From Storey’s ‘‘ Hunting 
and Shooting in Ceylon.” 
field for European sportsmen. The two species most 
sorely harried appear to be the chital, or spotted 
deer (Fig. 2), and the elephant. As both probably 
represent races peculiar to the island, their extermin- 
ation would be little short of a calamity. 
In the case of the chital (and this also applies in 
a minor degree to the sambar deer) the mischief 
seems to be due to the killing of this beautiful 
animal by native hunters for the sale of its flesh, 
which is cured and dried. The remedy suggested 
by Mr. Storey is the prohibition of all trade in pro- 
ducts of the chase within the island itself, the 
villagers being, however, permitted to kill such deer 
as they require for themselves. As regards elephants, 
of which the author believes there are less than two 
thousand in the wild state in the island, the destruc- 
tion appears to be mainly due to the European sports-: 
men, whose exertions were formerly stimulated by 
a Government reward for every one of these noble 
animals slain. 
As Ceylon elephants generally have no tusks to 
speak f, it is a little difficult to see why sportsmen 
are so een on shooting them, and it is to be hoped 
that th destruction may be stopped in the near 
future. \Vild tuskers (not improbably belonging to 
a race o ‘ginally imported from the mainland) are 
now, Mr. Storey tells us, very scarce in the island, 
although, except in the case of ‘ rogues,’’ they are 
rigorously protected. Naturalists will be much 
interested in a giant race of (practically) tuskless 
elephants living in the Tamankaduwa district which 
are much larger than the ordinary Ceylon form, and 
commonly attain a height of between 9 feet and 
to feet. 
The author’s 
buffalo of the 
observations with regard to the wild 
northern districts of the island, and 
